Ok good point

Justice and revenge are human inventions

 
I am sure there are zoologists and anthropologists, who would have oodles of 
observed behavior for the former. Justice is rarely objective, however better 
tech may render our species better choices. This is an optimistic guess.
 
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On 9 June 2014 11:22, spudboy100 via Everything List 
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Back to the death penalty. Its hard for me to determine what disuades people 
from murdering, if anything. 


For most people you don't need to dissuade them, except in extreme situations, 
imho. For psychopaths and normal people in extreme situations, I imagine it's 
the prospect of getting caught and punished (and no doubt the religious idea 
that they will inevitably be punished, possibly for eternity, helps). Plus the 
natural desire not to kill people (see previous posts on the difficulties 
armies have getting soldiers to kill people).

 
Is there such a thing as just revenge?



Justice and revenge are human inventions, so the question is context dependent. 
All one can say is that neither of these appear to exist naturally, except 
insofar as humans have created them, but that they both arise from tendencies 
with, I'm sure, genetic and social underpinnings. (So some animals exhibit them 
too, I imagine.)





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